Hacking Exposed Web 2.0: Web 2.0 Security Secrets and Solutions

by Cannings, Rich; Dwivedi, Himanshu; Lackey, Zane

• ISBN13: 9780071494618
• ISBN10: 0071494618
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-07
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Lock down next-generation Web services "This book concisely identifies the types of attacks which are faced daily by Web 2.0 sites, and the authors give solid, practical advice on how to identify and mitigate these threats." --Max Kelly, CISSP, CIPP, CFCE, Senior Director of Security, Facebook Protect your Web 2.0 architecture against the latest wave of cybercrime using expert tactics from Internet security professionals. Hacking Exposed Web 2.0 shows how hackers perform reconnaissance, choose their entry point, and attack Web 2.0-based services, and reveals detailed countermeasures and defense techniques. You'll learn how to avoid injection and buffer overflow attacks, fix browser and plug-in flaws, and secure AJAX, Flash, and XML-driven applications. Real-world case studies illustrate social networking site weaknesses, cross-site attack methods, migration vulnerabilities, and IE7 shortcomings. Plug security holes in Web 2.0 implementations the proven Hacking Exposed way Learn how hackers target and abuse vulnerable Web 2.0 applications, browsers, plug-ins, online databases, user inputs, and HTML forms Prevent Web 2.0-based SQL, XPath, XQuery, LDAP, and command injection attacks Circumvent XXE, directory traversal, and buffer overflow exploits Learn XSS and Cross-Site Request Forgery methods attackers use to bypass browser security controls Fix vulnerabilities in Outlook Express and Acrobat Reader add-ons Use input validators and XML classes to reinforce ASP and .NET security Eliminate unintentional exposures in ASP.NET AJAX (Atlas), Direct Web Remoting, Sajax, and GWT Web applications Mitigate ActiveX security exposures using SiteLock, code signing, and secure controls Find and fix Adobe Flash vulnerabilities and DNS rebinding attacks

Author Biography

Himanshu Dwivedi is a founding partner of iSEC Partners, LLC--a strategic digital security organization. He is the coauthor of Hacker's Challenge 3.

Alex Stamos is a founding partner of iSEC Partners, LLC. He is an experienced security professional and has been a featured speaker at top industry conferences.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Attacking Web 2.0

Common Injection Attacks

Cross-Site Scripting

Next Generation Web Application Attacks

Cross-Domain Attacks

Malicious JavaScript and AJAX

Net Security

AJAX

AJAX Types, Discovery, and Parameter Manipulation

AJAX Framework Exposures

Thick Clients

ActiveX Security

Attacking Flash Applications

Index

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